You must submit, with your SAP, detailed information to assist BOEM in complying with NEPA and other relevant laws as appropriate.
Type of information: | Including: |
(1) Hazard information | Meteorology, oceanography, sediment transport, geology, and shallow geological or manmade hazards. |
(2) Water quality | Turbidity and total suspended solids from construction. |
(3) Biological resources | Benthic communities, marine mammals, sea turtles, coastal and marine birds, fish and shellfish, plankton, sea grasses, and other plant life. |
(4) Threatened or endangered species | As required by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 etseq.). |
(5) Sensitive biological resources or habitats | Essential fish habitat, refuges, preserves, special management areas identified in coastal management programs, sanctuaries, rookeries, hard bottom habitat, chemosynthetic communities, calving grounds, barrier islands, beaches, dunes, and wetlands. |
(6) Archaeological resources | As required by the NHPA (16 U.S.C. 470 etseq.), as amended. |
(7) Social and economic conditions | Employment, existing offshore and coastal infrastructure (including major sources of supplies, services, energy, and water), land use, subsistence resources and harvest practices, recreation, recreational and commercial fishing (including typical fishing seasons, location, and type), minority and lower income groups, coastal zone management programs, and viewshed. |
(8) Coastal and marine uses | Military activities, vessel traffic, and energy and non-energy mineral exploration or development. |
(9) Consistency Certification | If required by CZMA, as appropriate: (i) 15 CFR part 930 , subpart D, if the SAP is submitted prior to lease issuance; (ii) 15 CFR part 930, subpart E, if the SAP is submitted after lease issuance. |
(10) Other resources, conditions, and activities | As identified by BOEM. |
30 C.F.R. §585.611